Primelephas korotorensis

Primelephas korotorensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrimelephasPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Elephantidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Elephantidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 28 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

28 occurrences of Primelephas korotorensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

28 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Adu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ELukeino — 0.50°N, 35.67°EOluka — 1.00°N, 30.50°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°E

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The named rock units Primelephas korotorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Primelephas korotorensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Primelephas korotorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Primelephas korotorensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

14 references

Each of the 28 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 2 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Primelephas korotorensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Primelephas korotorensis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPrimelephas through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coppens 1965)